Transportation-ticket.



A. O. ADAMS.

TRANSPORTATION TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 6, 1911.

1,090,589. Patented Mar.1 7,1914.

OR l6 INA L Line "Franklin Ave.

To be retained by issuing Conductor.

COUPON.

Line. Franklin Ave.

2 Redeemable for merchandise 8. at Store "R1 bereturnecl to passengerafter tra'nsfein is detached by issuin conductor.

T53 115 6 513 515 H I2 I 3 l 4 15 1617181? 20 2 22 23 242525272827303' TRANSFER 2 Lime --FrankLin Ave, L Not good if detached from coupon except by receivim conduct M mmi i WITNESSES: 11v VENTOR.

Cloadams. W 27m ATTORNEY.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH 60-, WASHINGTON. D C

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

ALEXANDER G. ADAMS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

TRANSPORTATION-TICKET.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALEXANDER C. ADAMS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Transportation-Tickets, of which the following is a specification. I

The object of this invention is toprovide a device for use on common carriers such as street railroads, elevated railroads, etc., which will act as a check on the conductors, or others receiving cash fares, to insure the return to the operating company of all moneys collected in payment of the services which they perform in the way of carrying passengers.

The invention is also designed to prevent the improper use of transfer privileges.

The objects of the invention are accomplished by the use of a novel form of ticket and the drawing represents a book of tickets designed for the purposes at hand.

It is my intention to have the tickets bound up in book form, as illustrated in the drawings, and they are made in three sections at, Z) and c, the sections of each ticket being correspondingly numbered as illustrated at d. The first section a is securely attached to the binding and forms the stub showing the particular line of the system upon which the ticket was issued. Upon the payment of thefare the conductor detaches sections 3) and c from section a on the line mm and hands it to the passenger. Section Z), which is interposed between sections a and c, is a coupon which has a certain fixed redemptive value at some premium station for merchandise or the like. Section 0 constitutes the transfer and is to be punched by the issuing conductor with the date, the time of transfer, and the line to which the transfer is given. The transfer section carries on its face directions to the effect that it is not good for transportation unless attached to the redeemable coupon b and it is the duty of the receiving conductor to detach section b from section 0 and return section b to the passenger. The issuing conductor is required to turn in each day his stubs and to account for as many fares as there are stubs from which section b and 0 have been detached.

Specification of Letters Patent.

7 Application filed October 6, 1911.

Patented Mar. 17,1914.

Serial No. 653,251.

It will be seen that the redemptive coupon and attached coupon,.which go into the ms sengers hands in receipt for a fare, will to a very large extent prevent the improper use of the transfer for the reason that the person giving up the transfer must also give up the redeemable coupon, otherwise, the transfer will not have any value.

The presence of the redeemable coupon will also have the effect of making all passengers insist upon receiving one in payment. of a fare with the result that the use of the ordinary fare registers can .be eliminated and a large expense both in initial installation and in repairs will be saved to the operating company. This is particularly true of what are known as pay as you enter cars which are coming into quite general use at the present time.

I am aware that it has been proposed heretofore to use sectional tickets but many of these devices have been objectionable for the reason that they partook of the nature of gambling and lottery schemes, while others had been of the character which did not provide a complete check on conductors. My device is of a character which holds out sufficient incentive to the public to gain their cooperation with the company officials to the end that the company will receive its just dues for the services which it performs.

I claim as my invention:

A transfer and receipt ticket comprising a stub section, a. redemption section, and a transfer section readily separable from each other, the transfer section being provided with a notice that said section confers the 96 right to transfer only when said section is unseparated from the redemption section, said redemption section having a notice thereon indicating that the said section is to be returned to the passenger after the 95 transfer section has been detached therefrom by the receiving conductor and further having a notice that said redemption section has a redeemable value.

ALEXANDER O. ADAMS.

Witnesses:

GEo. A. WILLIAMS, JOHN F. THoMsoN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

- Washington, 11. C. 

